Costumes for stage performances
Mothman costume
Mothman
common clothes moth
© Lisa Black
Taxonomy shirt
CARPET MUNCHER at
1-12 Aug Scottish Storytelling Centre
Part of the Culture Ireland Edinburgh Showcase 2025
A solo Spoken Word drag performance celebrating queer resistance. It brings the urban legend of the 'Mothman' to life, using vibrant surrealist costuming to explore themes of queer alienation, metamorphosis, cross-border solidarity and homoerotic hot-hub encounters.This show invites you to face the pest in your closet. Is it hungry for light? More creature than human? Join this intimate, frenzied call to celebrate the unknowable within us all.
© Carol Cummins
The Mothman was sighted in September 2024 at the Dublin Fringe Festival
Roaming the home of Irish revolutionary poet Pádraic Pearse
© Avril O’Sullivan
© Carol Cummins
Polyphēmos
Premiered at Berlin Spoken Word, 2021; then brought to Runoviikko Festival 2022
An emotional bestiary, from Icarus’ stray feathers to the Minotaur’s heart, in dialogue with Ancient Greek rhapsody.
Polyphēmos: "many-voiced”, “abounding in songs and legends"
unraveled yourself,
to be wrapped around his finger; stretched thin, pulled taught (…)
Devil’s hood
Icarus wings
practicing divination
in the peels of a moment stripped bare (…)
The Devil You Know and The Devil You Don’t
Satanic Panic! performance at Spoken Word Paris, 2023
A Faustian poetic ritual, aiming to summon the demon of inspiration through the means of sacrifice.
© Sabine Dundure
Drag performance at Dance To The Underground, Dublin, 2024
© Memphis Zuza
with the sharp edge
of your spoon,
you’ll break my fever (…)
Julia / portrait of a puppeteer
2021
…textile, beads, stuffing and embroidery thread.
dedicated to and modelled by Julia Barbosa
